The first day the mail was switched to our more secure server Carolyn Wallace - Realtor/Manager said "the volume of junk mail has dropped 95% It is Wondeful. Thank-you!!!...these guys are great"
We then created a New website design for the public facing side and company Intranet services. This web application combines the Central Virginia Multiple Listing Service as well as the Independent Rental Properties Managed by the firm.
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E-mail continues to flow into the mailboxes and is currently on schedule with delivery times. All out-bound e-mail is working normal. We are working on the e-mail systems and this may create an occasional service delay at intermittent time. We are currently working to resolve performance issues. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience!
UPDATE, 11:55AM
We are currently queuing the remaining e-mail messages into our customers' mailboxes, as of 11:00AM, Eastern Time. We anticipate anywhere from two to four hours before all email delivery returns to normal, however you may already notice some of yesterday's messages begin to arrive in your inbox.
Again, we apologize for the inconvenience, and will not rest until your email system is back at 100% functionality.
We will continue to post here as this issue is resolved. Thank you again for your patience.
We are currently experiencing e-mail issues with delays in mail being delivered to mail storage. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.
]]>Hurricane Irene has blown through the east coast leaving many businesses without power, Internet connections, damage to the facilities and various hardware problems preventing productive return to operations. Net Easy on the other hand, has been prepared for such scenario. Additionally, Net Easy has prepared their clients with well prepared contingency solution that have withstood the brunt of the strongest earthquake in Virginia for over 114 years, Hurricane Irene's destruction in central Virginia without a problem.
Net Easy reports no network outages throughout all circumstances even though the Richmond office is without power to the building. As a result of power outage, all staff are working virtual and on clients sites as conditions require.
Should you need assistance, feel free to call the office and leave a message. Someone should return your call promptly.
]]>The recent scenario of several malware software products have targeted Apple (Mac) systems and have left many consumers as victims of infections. What is worse, reports have now surfaced that Apple has instructed the AppleCare techs to neither decline or admit the existence of such software and to NOT attempt to remove such software according to ZD Net. Apple has taken the position that is cannot support malware issues leaving those consumers using AppleCare contracts high-and-dry for support.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apple-to-support-reps-do-not-attempt-to-remove-malware/3362
Net Easy on the other hand is a vendor neutral IT consulting company that has long been using Apple (Mac), Linux, Solaris, Unix and Windows systems. Net Easy is well versed in security practices and operations and uses many tools to facilitate: prevention, detection and resolution of such problems. Feel free to contact Net Easy for support with such issues.
Apple will adopt the ClamAV product in the Mac OS X Lion edition. Joel Esler (of Sourcefire Cybersecuirty) who recently presented at one of the local linux user groups even announced that Apple plans to include the "Open Source" product ClamAV in the next release of OS X Lion.
Here are a few tools used for some security analysis in NO particular order, Not a comprhensive list and NOT necessarily endorsed by Net Easy.
| Name | URL | |
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| Bro IDS | http://www.bro-ids.org/ | |
| ClamAV | http://www.clamav.net/ | |
| OpenFPC | http://www.openfpc.org/ | |
| Polman | https://github.com/gamelinux/polman/ | |
| Razorback | http://labs.snort.org/razorback/ | |
| Rumainte IDS | http://www.ruminate-ids.org/ | |
| Security Onion | http://code.google.com/p/security-onion/ | |
| Sguil | http://www.sguil.net/ | |
| Snorby | http://snorby.org/ | |
| Snort | http://www.snort.org/ | |
| Suricata IDS | http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/ |
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The VistA system is developed in the programming language of MUMPS. The MUMPS programming language was developed in the 1960s for health care. The system is used in the VA Medical Systems where doctors and nurses have learned to use the software and like it. However, most software developers do not think much of it in today's technology. The software has gotten some poor reviews in the press like the Wall Street Journal's article and it appears most medical groups do not use it even though it is free to operate. One of the underlying issues is that it is easier to turn a medical professional into a software developer than it is to teach medicine to a software engineer. For further information on the software, please visit: http://www.worldvista.org/.
Butch joined Net Easy in April 2011 and will continue developing skills across technical roles. Net Easy does not isolate services to any one vertical market but Net Easy's management has direct medical experience in clinical, didactic and research medicine. Net Easy is a private company that is neutral in vendor hardware and software services that consults on best practices in IT services. Net Easy has consulted with the VistA system and infrastructure design but mostly facilitates data migration to other software products in the medical arena, including but not limited to other "Open Source" medical applications.
Net Easy would like to welcome Butch in his role and wish him much success in his endeavors.
]]>Java has dominated the mobile market for the development solution. The JVM, security, scalability, etc. of Java has proven outstanding for applications. However, Java is now owned by Oracle and has never been 100% "Open Source" even when owned by Sun. Additionally, with Oracle's actions in 2010, the Java Community Process has pretty much concluded that open Java development is now dead. While this is more a philosophical point verse the factual scenario (forking Java); there are still many developers seeking 100% open languages.
SL4A (Scripting Layer for Android) brings various scripting languages like Python to the mobile device platform where it can execute scripts directly on the device. The project currently supports Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScrript, Tcl and shell with plans to add more. Developed by Damon Kohler, currently employed with Google, it is early in development and hosted on the Google code page: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ While it is not reached highly visible status, many suspect it shall take-off with Python as the script language. Clearly Google will invest in support of such should it detect activity.
Tiobi recently published research which claims that Python has overtaken PHP development and that Python is the fastest growing language in 2010 (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html). Python already dominates in the scientific communities for development and appears to be gaining in commercial use.
Non-programmers probably ask why they should care. However, some people (including at Net Easy) believe that almost all professional jobs will require some programming skills in the future as data continues to expand. Python developer and chairperson of the Python Software Foundation Steve Holden clearly believes this http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2010/09/new-ost-course-python-2-getting-more-out-of-python-by-steve-holden.html. A review of the skills required for jobs today: programmers, network admins, security specialists, analysts, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, biologists, etc., etc. demonstrate the pervasiveness of programming skills in the information age.
Python is poised to be the language of use and has now become the dominate entry level computer science course in the United States. One example is at MIT where the entry level on-line course is in computer science and engineering is using Python to teach the material.
Some simple points are that Python is:
Those are a few points that are made everywhere when discussing Python.
A feature of Python that is not required in other languages is the "white space" syntax or the "indentation" requirements for the code to execute. This is unusual in a programming language and was even a point of complaint for new Python developers for many years. However, after several years of use, it became clear that the indentation feature was a huge advantage, particularly compared to scripting languages like Perl or PHP. Such languages as Perl or PHP were also easy to learn and quick to develop. However, they were usually difficult to understand later, rife with poor techniques and problems. Python's indentation requirements forces the developer to space the code in a fashion to run. Such scenario results in an added benefit that makes the code very easy to read and follow later. Thus, maintenance or reuse is fast and easy to achieve. As a result, the "white space" phenomenon of Python results in code that is very easy to maintain over time and actually leads to the infamous "Return On Investment" goal as the total cost of ownership is reduced over time.
Kudos to Damon and Google for the SL4A project! We hope everyone will embrace the adoption of it.
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Please note that all password alterations should be at least a minimum of 8 characters. We actually recommend using 12 characters. The password should include upper and lower case alpha characters, should include digits and special characters.
Net Easy has blocked e-mail from the China Government network due to ongoing attacks and account breach attempts. Net Easy clients can contact support for further communications information with China networks.
E-mail systems have been upgraded and new settings allow for file sharing options in e-mail accounts via SSL certificate.
The email system is fully operational and clients can switch from the legacy settings to the new settings at anytime.
E-mail services will run slow through the day. Please close any connections not in use to enhance performance for others. This is a temporary issue being addressed.
Webmail is accessible @ https://webmail.neteasy.us/
Note: information on connection settings can be located at the above URL and includes e-mail client software settings.
Please contact support if there are any problems. Note that the indexing of the e-mail may have been reset. If that is the case, the e-mail client will tell you it needs to download the e-mail.
E-mail upgrades will begin at 6:30 pm on Feb. 6, 2011. Sending and retrieving e-mail will be suspended during the upgrade process. No e-mail will be bounced or lost during the process. We appreciate your patience while we work to upgrade the service. Regular services should be available about 11:00 pm.
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]]>Net Easy has been using Open Source (FREE) Linux/Unix based solutions for years to do its routing, fire-walling, web filtering, intrusion detection, spam filtering, anti-virus filtering, VPN, high-availability, BGP, etc., etc., etc. services. This presents a huge cost savings to our clients compared to products like Cisco, SonicWall, Watchguard, Barracuda, Microsoft, etc.
Net Easy often achieves even further savings by installing the software on standard computers specified for the goals instead of the manufacturers fabricated equipment. During the last few years hardware has improved to allow virtualization of these layers as well. Thus, Net Easy has been able to virtualize the various servers (file server, Windows Domain Controllers, etc.) into one physical layer (computer) which reduces the hardware, maintenance and power consumption costs.
The Endian Unified Threat Management (UTM) product brings further cost savings to our clients in that it reduces Net Easy labor costs required to configure and support various custom built solutions. Endian UTM software incorporates many of the software products Net Easy uses now and provides a faster method to configure and manage the various software products we employ for our clients.
A feature list is located here:
http://www.endian.com/en/products/features/overview/
A new cost savings being introduced in 2010 shall result from the internal staffs' ability to do simple network modifications via the user interface. Internal staff can be trained to do certain functions to the network without advanced command line skills. This reduces the labor expenses for many reasons such as outside vendors. For example, the creation of VPN keys along with the local client software product can be taught to users for management of staffs' remote connections.
Many people are looking for a product that is cost effective but can serve to filter their malware, spyware, spam, do web content filtering, etc. from the Internet. This product can achieve this and offers even more benefits for clients operating local e-mail servers (particularly MS Exchange). It can be configured to act as a secondary MX record so that regular maintenance can be performed on the mail server without losing or bouncing e-mail.
It offers network traffic monitoring, web proxy, SIP proxy, easy interface for defining custom firewall rules, etc. In short, it reduces total costs of labor to configure these custom packages which results in savings for clients. To date, it offers the most value for the dollar and actually reduces expenses associated with labor costs.
Net Easy is happy to provide price information for your organization. Feel free to contact us for further information.
804-740-EASY (3279)
sales (at) neteasyinc (dot) com
Another important feature is the support for the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) which allows developers to embed fonts in their Web site and pass them on to the browser with metadata about licensing information. The theory is that this could result in licensing of fonts for web browsers.
Mozilla continues to enhance the JavaScript performance and has added support for JSON objects encdoing and decoding speed.
Additional features include altering display abilities to switch between Portrait to Landscape views on tablets like the upcoming iPad using the MozOrientation event. Stylessheet (CSS) options for items like Gradients are included, multiple background images, and pointer events to do page targets of elements.
One can anticipate a lot of changes in browsers as the rush is one for capture developers interests in Chrome extensions vs Mozilla, support for HTML 5 elements and potentially the return of broswer specific features that will not be standards based. It should be a wild ride as the competition increases.
A new feature that users will enjoy include Personas which will allow custom wallpaper setting to make your browser different from others. Enahanced security to help reduce malware. New technology which they claim will reduce phising along with "forget this site" to ensure privacy. Parental controls, password management, outdated plug-in detection to name a few. To see a list of security features, visit this page: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#security.
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Endian is capable of doing spam filtering and antiviris filtering in either bridged mode or gateway mode. However, another benefit is for groups that operate their own Microsoft Exchange E-mail Servers in house. The Endian software/device can be configured to serve as a secondary MX record, allowing the Microsoft Exchange E-mail Server to be rebooted or taken down for service without loss of e-mail.
"Endian is a combination of various Open Source products written in various languages that are connected together using the Python programming language (http://python.org ) to ensure interoperability. This provides for highly cost effective development and keeps the price point at a good value for features" says Bryan Fogleman. IT professionals can achieve best practice services with reduced time to hand configure many of these services. Troy Frew points out that a few examples of the features are:
However, some really nice features that take more time to address would be:
Visit Endian @ http://www.endian.com
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